🦨 0. Firefox 1. ……… 25 cal

A.G.R

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I have had a real problem the last three nights. Besides my yard looking like John Daily and Walter Hagen teamed up and drank and gallon of booze and played night golf on my grass. The smell has been, well. …. Snoop Doog ish.

I had to wait him out as he was coming in late and hitting the bait .. first night the possum came in and ate a chicken leg , as I watched and hosed him away.. yup garden hose. ( I don’t shoot the good guys). 🦨 must have came in after 2 am as I didn’t wait any longer.. He posted his revenge on my lawn for the possum getting his dinner.

Second night he decided to not show and eat in my neighbors trash, as I smelled him but couldn’t get any 👀 on him


As said, patience is a virtue.. or the left over Easter Desert that was so sweet you got a cavity looking at it..
it was like crack.. I put it out early so to get the smell out.. Neighbors we’re slamming doors later than normal so was a bit irritated..
Like all addicts ,they will return to their supplier. 🤹‍♀️And this one did at 11:30 . ☠️ am

The Firefox is equipped with a home made flashlight mount that I made out of old mounts and a wide angle LED .. Its. .25 caliber slingning 25.3 jsb kings to the tune of 34 ft lbs..

One quick flick of the trigger and lights out.. …….. his parting Blast was his attempt at revenge ,but my lawn really is the winner as I don’t have to deal with the drunken golfers ….

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Nice pest hunt write up. And yes that is one beautiful stock on your rifle.
Had a similar problem a couple years ago big female had a den with kits and I ended up with a 6-7 meter long 2 m wide crescent in my front lawn that was all dug up.
A single head shot at dusk resolved the problem.
Later I found they were digging up and eating the large grubs that were eating the roots of my grass
Got Rid of the grubs and haven't had any further skunk problems.

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Thanks guys, it’s a custom prototype gun I made years back. To push the limits of break barrel Springers. The stock is a western fiddleback maple with a Suji finish I made. It’s a 30 mm tube gun with 110 mm stroke all custom internals built by me. It uses. UK tomahawk trigger, imagine a tomahawk on steroids

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Thanks guys, it’s a custom prototype gun I made years back. To push the limits of break barrel Springers. The stock is a western fiddleback maple with a Suji finish I made. It’s a 30 mm tube gun with 110 mm stroke all custom internals built by me. It uses. UK tomahawk trigger, imagine a tomahawk on steroids

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That is one of the most pretty tiger strip stock I’ve ever seen!!! I would hesitate to shoot it at all!
 
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I'm coming back for another look and a question! How does a Suji finish work on hard wood like maple, as opposed to the traditional cedar?
Technically not the exact method that the Japanese used.. They burnt soft cedar to harden it with char, and sealed it, with a shellac ..
This was a controlled burn to char the stripes and then softly sanded to allow the blond summer wood to show up. A mixture of aniline dyes and scotch brute pads was used to relieve the wood of total color. Thus creating the immense Tiger striping in the wood itself. . .That being said it was a fantastic piece of wood alone. You have to have a great fiddle back piece to begin with. This top is one, western maple , I’m about to cut very soon, That is natural oil poly on it no stain Or dye.
The bottom one is a Bastogne walnut fiddle
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